As I promised in an April blog, my article,  The Pitfalls of Objectively Measured Just Compensation: When Market Value Isn’t Enough, is now published in The Practical Real Estate Lawyer’s September 2024 issue.
In the article, I discuss why compensating displaced property owners based on the fair market value of their property shortchanges them.  I advocate…

Thank you to Mitch Galloway for quoting us in his Farm News article, “ITC Transmission Line Plan Moves Forward in Eaton, Gratiot, Calhoun, Branch Counties.”
As we wrote last week, ITC is moving forward with its mid-Michigan transmission line project.  We represent several property owners who are affected by the project.  If you have…

The Michigan Electric Transmission Company, LLC (“METC”), an International Transmission Company subsidiary, has filed two applications for certificates of public convenience and necessity for the construction of major transmission lines with the Michigan Public Service Commission (“MPSC”).  The first, MPSC Case U-21471, proposes a 345 KV electric transmission line between the Oneida Substation in Eaton…

As referenced in an earlier blog, Alan and Mathew co-authored an article in The Practical Real Estate Lawyer‘s May 2024 issue.
The article is titled “Valuation of Partial Takings.”  In it, Alan and Matthew describe:

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Last summer, I wrote a blog about why just compensation—which is based on the ‘objective’ standard of what a property would sell for on the open market—shortchanges residential property owners subjected to eminent domain.  Two weeks ago, I co-presented this topic at the American Law Institute’s Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Seminar in New…

* The following blog is an adaptation of the presentation Alan Ackerman and Matthew Ackerman gave on “The Fundamentals of Easement Valuation” at the American Law Institute’s Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Seminar in New Orleans on February 1, 2024.
I.  The Basics
One of the more complicated valuation issues in eminent domain cases…

One of the most common types of cases we handle is utility takings for transmission lines.  As governments attempt to improve the electrical grid to support the transportation of wind and solar energy, this type of case is likely to become increasingly common.  Although transmission lines may serve a public purpose, they often devastate…